Libros de David Lindley

The End Of Physics: The Myth Of A Unified Theory

• For more than a century physicists have hoped that they were closing in on the Holy Grail of modern

Growing

• 48 páginas
• David Lindley was born in 1945. The poems in this collection are reflections on a post-war childhood, growing up in the industrial West Riding of Yorkshire. They range from short untitled poems with a haiku-like quality, to longer poems which, perhaps,...

How To Write A Haiku

• 70 páginas
• How to Write a Haiku provides a concise introduction to the art of the haiku and takes the beginner through the process of capturing the fleeting moment or a high point of experience. This practical guide gives examples of haiku newly translated from the...

The Song Of Myself: A New Verse Translation Of The Bhagavad Gita

• 320 páginas
• The Song of Myself, whose title takes its cue from Walt Whitman's celebration of the self, Song of Myself, is a modern, free-flowing verse rendition of the classic Sanskrit text, The Bhagavad Gita. It provides a fresh reading of a much translated work...

Where Does The Weirdness Go?: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Strange, But Not As Strange As You Think

• 268 páginas
• Few revolutions in science have been more far-reaching—but less understood—than the quantum revolution in physics. Everyday experience cannot prepare us for the sub-atomic world, where quantum effects become all-importa...

Boltzmanns Atom

• 272 páginas
• In 1900 many eminent scientists did not believe atoms existed, yet within just a few years the atomic century launched into history with an astonishing string of breakthroughs in physics that began with Albert Einstein and continues to this day. Before...

Book Of Days

• 100 páginas
• A collection of poems tracking the changing weather of love and the seasons through a single year.

The Freedom To Be Tragic

• 306 páginas
• We do not know how we came to be here and our lives, in a manner of speaking, are lived for us. We accept life because we are unable to refuse it. We suffer a given condition, and we ourselves are inescapably material elements of that given condition....

The Tempest

Something & Nothing

• 190 páginas
• The first major poetry collection from David Lindley, bringing together published and unpublished poems of three decades. Most of the poems are short. 'A long poem tends to wander off from experience and doesn't leave you with that taste of being...

Ideas Of Order

• 158 páginas
• Aphorisms, reflections and essays on order and meaning, and on the principle of aesthetic sufficiency as the only valid form of mental judgment.

Tempest

• 288 páginas
• The Tempest is a strange and elusive play; which critics have interpreted in very different ways: as a drama of forgiveness and reconciliation, as an exploration of the limits of theatrical art, or as a play complicit with colonial exploitation. Prospero&...